Drama, 2015

Gaza Strip, nowadays. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bitter divorcée, a religious woman, a lunatic addicted to prescription drugs and a young bride-to-be among others. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, the women start to unravel.

Producers Abbout Productions, Made In Palestine, Les Films Du Tambour, Full House, Mille Et Une Films
Screenwriter Tarzan & Arab Nasser
Cinematography Eric Devin
Editor Sophie Reine, Eyas Salman
Music Composer Benjamin Grospiron
Cast Hiam Abbass, Victoria Balitska, Manal Awad, Mirna Sakhla, Dina Shuhaiber, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Raneem Daoud, Sameera Asir

Festivals & Awards

Cannes Film Festival (Critics’ Week), New Horizons Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Carthage Film Festival.